Brygos painter

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Zeuxo and Chrysippos , bowl around 490/80 BC Chr.
Aulos player , bowl around 490 BC Chr.
Frenzied maenad. In her right hand she holds a thyrsus staff, with her left she hurls a panther through the air. A flickering snake is twisting its tiara in its hair. Tondo from an Attic white-ground kylix, 490-480 BC Chr

The Brygos painter is an Attic - red-figure vase painter of the late archaic era . Along with Onesimos , Duris and Macron, he is one of the most important bowl painters of his time. He worked in the first third of the 5th century BC. BC, especially in the 480s and 470s.

The Brygos painter got his emergency name after the potter Brygos , known by signatures , for whom he painted a large part of the bowls produced. He was probably one of the most productive vase painters; more than 200 works have been assigned to him to date. Besides shells he painted only a few other vase shapes, including skyphoi , head kantharoi and rhytons , also a big one Kalathos similar vessel with a spout and some lekythoi . But most of his works were bowls of type B and C. The latter mostly dispense with meandering baselines , the former often have conical feet. The meanders around the interior pictures are seldom continuous, they are interrupted by cross pallets or X-signs with dots at the ends. In addition to red-figure works, some white-ground works are also known.

Stylistically, the Brygos painter is in the tradition of the early Onesimo. Especially in his early phase, he is considered particularly powerful and inventive. His lines are not always very fine, but the postures of his figures and the expressiveness of his faces are outstanding. He is considered to be the archaic painter who best masters the posture of his figures. He is one of the first and also one of the few painters who manage to show a child really as a child and not as a small adult. This suggests that the Brygos painter created many works on the basis of close observations of nature. Many of his characters are characterized by their age. He particularly likes to show symposia and athlete scenes. His head drawings are quite easy to see. Flat skullcaps, long noses and narrow eyes, above which the eyebrows sit quite high, are typical for him. Above all, the design of the mouths is outstanding, as you can see them whistling, singing, playing the flute or simply pressed together, anatomically largely correct. Also typical are stubble beards and stubble hair in old people or beginning baldness.

His mythological representations are also mostly original. He shows a dead Ajax covered by Tekmessa , the triggering of the dead hectare or other scenes of the Trojan War . Dionysian scenes are also not uncommon. For example, a bowl is known in which satyrs attack the goddesses Iris and Hera . While Iris tries to fly away, Heracles and Hermes protect Hera. Dionysus, however, is quite uninvolved. Here, as on many of his other vases, the figures are named with inscriptions , sometimes even describing what the figures are singing or calling. Despite his enthusiasm for writing, favorite inscriptions are rare.

The Brygos Painter includes a group of other artists who were influenced by him or who were employed in the workshop of the potter Brygos. These include the ore foundry painter , the Briseis painter , the Dokimasia painter , the Louvre painter G 265 and the painter of the Parisian Gigantomachie .

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SURNAME Brygos painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.